anankastic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An anankastic phrase or utterance.
  2. An obsessive-compulsive individual. rare
    — Like many anankastics, he suffers from a disturbance in the capacity to act, which is revealed especially as an impediment to beginning something new and completing something.
形容词 adj.
  1. Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
  2. Characterised by compulsion; obsessive-compulsive.
    — 1991: ‘You’re a classic anal-retentive,’ he says, ‘tirelessly absorbed by minutiae, anankastic in the extreme – it’s lucky you have me to deal with the broad sweep of things, to do the abstract thinking.’ — Will Self, ‘Mono-Cellular’, The Quantity Theory of Insanity

词形变化

more anankastic comparative most anankastic superlative anankastics plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναγκαστικός (anankastikós), from ἀναγκάζω (anankázō, “to force, to compel”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναγκαστικός (anankastikós), from ἀναγκάζω (anankázō, “to force, to compel”).
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